It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.